Another stowaway survived the 8,000-mile flight from South Africa by holding on to the undercarriage of a British Airways Boeing 747 before being taken to hospital where he is said to be in a ‘serious’ condition.

It is believed the two men sneaked on to flight BA0054 before it set off from Johannesburg airport on Wednesday evening.

They are then thought to have hidden in the wheel recess during the airliner’s 11-hour five-minute overnight flight to London.

It is understood one of the men fell out as the undercarriage came down on the plane’s approach to Heathrow, while the other – who would have spent the night in temperatures as low as -50C – clung on.”

The reason why Africans continue to take this deadly challenge is because our leaders have failed us and our continent has in totality become inhabitable. Corruption and Mismanagement have made our rich continent one of the poorest.

This fall from the plane is not an isolated incident, in September 2012, a man from Mozambique fell to the ground in a suburban street in Mortlake, not far from Richmond, London in an apparently similar incident. The stowaway was later named as José Matada.